Global Chart Report
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A hot 'Espresso'
at the summit
Sunday, May 12, 2024
by Fred Chuchel, Dresden
Sabrina Carpenter's
'Espresso' delivers the new number
one of the Global Track Chart. The
catchy tune - perfectly made for the
summer - tops the hitlist with
330,000 points, a 4% increase
compared to the previous week.
Broken down by segments 'Espresso'
generated 281,000 points by
streaming (up 1,5%), 33,000 points
by sales (up 18%), and 16,000 points
by airplay (up 23%). Sabrina wrote
the song along with Amy Allen, Steph
Jones, and Julian Bunetta, and the
latter handled production.
'Espresso' ends the two-week reign
of 'Fortnight', the official single
lift-off from Taylor Swift's new
album 'The Tortured Poets
Department'. It ranks currently shy
behind 'Espresso' at the runner-up
slot with only a few hundred points
less, broken down by 209,000
streaming points, 93,000 sales
points, and 27,000 airplay points.
Rounds out this week's top three is
Benson Boone's 'Beautiful Things'
with 307,000 points (202,000 points
by streaming, 32,000 by sales, and
73,000 by airplay).
The song takes over the lead on the
year-to-date list with a total of
4,206,000 points. American rapper
Kendrick Lamar and Canadian rapper
Drake have been engaged in a rap
feud since August 2013. Tensions
escalated in March 2014, following
Lamar's surprise appearance on
Future and Metro Boomin's single
'Like That' (no.14 with 166,000
points). Drake responded to his
verse with the single 'Push Ups'
(no.39 with 97,000 points) and later
with 'Family Matters' (new at no.18
with 151,000 points). Kendrick Lamar
responded with three songs in just a
few days. The first song was
'Euphoria', which started at no.37
last week and shoots at no.7 on the
current tally with 261,000 points,
'Not Like Us' bows at no.4 with
299,000 points and finally 'Meet The
Grahams' arrives at no.27 with
127,000 points. Another notable
riser of the week is Tommy Richman's
'Million Dollar Baby'. Following a
string of single releases, Richman
started teasing 'Million Dollar
Baby' on his social media on April
22, 2024, and posted footage of
recording sessions using a
'VHS-style recording'. The snippet
amassed over 9.5 million views on
TikTok in less than a week, and
helped give it an explosive debut.
'Million Dollar Baby' rockets from
no.40 to no.5 on our hitlist with
289,000 points, a massive 222%
boost! Outside our weekly Top 40 waiting
among other 'Good Luck,
Babe!' by Chappell Roan at no.51,
'Meastro' by Seventeen at no.52, and
'Feather' by Sabrina
Carpenter at no.57 for their first appearance on the big
list. Back to the roots: Over 20
years ago Media Traffic started the
weekly Global Album Chart. At that
time this hitlist was based
exclusively on sales figures and -
like the Track Chart - included 40
positions. But the global album
sales fell dramatically over the
years, and that's why we shortened
the Top 40 to a Top 10 list in June
2016. Later we included streaming
data and now with the further
increase in the streaming share we
can finally offer an expanded
hitlist again. The South Korean boy
group Seventeen storms atop this
week's Global Album Chart with the
best-of compilation '17 Is Right
Here' and massive 872,000 equivalent
sales, the lion's share of it comes
- of course - from the band's native
country. Broken down by segments the
set generated 831,000 points by
physical or digital sales, but only
41,000 points by streaming. Taylor Swift have
reached the absolute peak of her
career, the eleventh studio effort
'The Tortured Poets Department'
started easily atop the Global Album
Chart a fortnight ago with stellar 3,35 million
equivalent sales! That's the biggest
start by an album since Adele's '25'
set exploded with 5,71 million sales
in the calendar week 49, 2015...
nearly eight and a half years ago.
The album's numbers were almost three
times as high as the subsequent Top
20 placements combined in that week.
After the set remained at no.1 last
week with another 589,000 equivalent
sales, it sails to the runner-up
slot currently with 372,000
consumption units, that gives a
total of 4,31 million in only three
weeks! There are another two high
debuts on this week's tally: the
South Korean girl group Ive arrives
at no.3 with their second extended
play 'Ive Switch' and 323,000
equivalent sales, followed by Dua
Lipa's third studio album 'Radical
Optimism' and 225,000 equivalent
sales. And now, as every
week, additional stats from outside
the current Global Album Top 20 in
alphabetic order, the first figure
means last week's sales, the second
figure the total sales: '1989' by
Taylor Swift 18,000 / 16,217,000,
'1989 (Taylor's Version)' by Taylor
Swift 47,000 / 5,243,000, '21' by Adele 21,000 / 32,792,000,
'25' by Adele 11,000 / 24,969,000,
'30' by Adele 8,000 / 6,372,000,
'After Hours' by The Weeknd 42,000 /
9,399,000, the soundtrack to
'Barbie: The Album' 32,000 /
2,188,000, 'Certified Lover Boy' by
Drake 15,000 / 6,584,000,
'Divide' by Ed Sheeran 26,000 /
20,859,000, 'Endless Summer
Vacation' by Miley Cyrus 12,000 /
1,822,000, 'Equals' by Ed Sheeran
13,000 / 5,933,000, 'Evermore' by
Taylor Swift 20,000 / 5,873,000,
'Folklore' by Taylor Swift 43,000 /
9,918,000,
'For All The Dogs' by
Drake 37,000 / 2,944,000, 'Future Nostalgia' by Dua
Lipa 32,000 / 8,691,000, Génesis' by
Peso Pluma 40,000 / 1,882,000,
'Golden' by Jung Kook 48,000 /
2,300,000,
'Harry's House'
by Harry Styles 35,000 / 6,698,000,
'Hereos &
Villains' by Metro Boomin 39,000 /
3,868,000, 'Midnights' 47,000 /
10,776,000, 'Pink Friday 2'
by Nicki Minaj 11,000 / 1,071,000, 'Red (Taylor's
Version)' by Taylor Swift 32,000 /
5,729,000, 'Sour' by
Olivia Rodrigo 54,000 / 9,976,000,
'Speak
Now (Taylor's Version)' by Taylor
Swift 24,000 / 3,188,000,
'Vultures 1' by ¥$: Kanye West & Ty
Dolla $ign 70,000 / 1,011,000, and 'When We All Fall Asleep,
Where Do We Go?' by Billie Eilish
29,000 / 11,731,000.
GLOBAL NO.1 - 30 YEARS
AGO
... "Streets Of Philadelphia" was
released on February 2, 1994 for the
1993 American legal drama film
Philadelphia, starring Tom Hanks, an
early mainstream film dealing with
HIV / AIDS. Philadelphia director
Jonathan Demme asked Springsteen to
write a song for his fim. In late
August 1993, after the conclusion of
the "Other Band" tour, he recorded a
demo of his completed song at Thrill
Hill Recording, Beverly Hills,
California (his home studio),
supplying all of the
instrumentation. He mailed the tape
to Demme, who later said, "my wife
and I sat down and listened to it,
and we were literally weeping by the
end". "Streets Of Philadelphia"
reached the top position in Germany,
France, Italy, Norway, Austria,
Ireland, and won four Grammy Awards:
Song of the Year, Best Rock Song,
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Solo,
and Best Song Written Specifically
for a Motion Picture or Television.
USA
Billboard Report
(excerpt)
Taylor Swift rules Billboard
200 for thrid week
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust,
Los Angeles
Taylor Swift’s
The Tortured Poets
Department spends a third
straight week at No.1 on the
Billboard 200 chart (dated
May 18), marking her first
title to spend its first
three weeks atop the
chart since 2020’s Folklore spent its first six weeks at
No. 1. (Between Folklore and the new album, Swift earned six No. 1 albums.) The
Tortured Poets Department is the first album to spend its first three weeks in
the pole position since Travis Scott’s Utopia led in its first four weeks last
summer (Aug. 12-Sept. 2, 2023).
The Tortured Poets Department earned 282,000 equivalent album units in the U.S.
in the week ending May 9 (down 36%), according to Luminate. That marks the
largest third-week for any album since Swift’s own Midnights clocked 299,000
units in its third frame (Nov. 19, 2022-dated chart). Of the sum of 282,000, SEA units
comprise 229,500 (down 30%, equaling 298.33 million on-demand official streams
of the set’s songs), traditional album sales comprise 51,000 (down 53%) and TEA
units comprise 1,500 (down 43%).
Swift adds her 72nd career week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, extending her
record among soloists (Elvis Presley has the second-
most among soloists, with
67). The total encompasses her 14 leaders. (She’s tied with Jay-Z for the most
No. 1s among soloists.)
Dua Lipa scores
her highest-charting album yet on the Billboard 200 as her third studio effort,
Radical Optimism, bows at No. 2. It enters with 83,000 equivalent album units
earned — a personal best for the singer-songwriter. Of its starting sum, album
sales comprise 51,500 (it’s the top-selling album of the week, and it’s Lipa’s
best sales week ever), SEA units comprise 30,500 (equaling 39.7 million
on-demand official streams of the album’s songs) and TEA units comprise 1,000.
The album’s sales were bolstered by its availability across 20 physical
variants, all with the same 11 songs. There were 11 vinyl editions in assorted
colors (one of which was signed, and most variants were exclusive to specific
retailers) and two cassette tapes.
Radical Optimism is Lipa’s second top 10-charting effort, following her
sophomore set, 2020’s Future Nostalgia, which peaked at No. 3.
The new 11-song album was announced on March 13 following two
previously-released singles “Houdini” and “Training Season.” The former dropped
last November and peaked at No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 that month, while
the latter topped out at No. 27 in March. A third single, “Illusion,” bowed at
No. 43 on the chart dated April 27.
Two former No. 1s are up next on the Billboard 200, as Morgan
Wallen’s
One Thing at a Time is pushed down 2-3 despite a 3% gain (to 71,000 equivalent
album units) and
Future and Metro Boomin’s
We Don’t Trust You falls 3-4 (down 1% to 61,000 units).
Seventeen collects
its fifth top 10 on the Billboard 200, all consecutive, as Seventeen Best Album
‘17 Is Right Here’ debuts at No. 5. The retrospective compilation earned 53,000
equivalent album units in its first week. Of that sum, album sales comprise
49,000, SEA units comprise 4,000 (equaling 5.5 million on-demand official
streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.
Ye (formerly Kanye West) and Ty Dolla $ign’s
chart-topping Vultures 1 flies back into the top 10, as it wings 52-6 following
the set’s arrival on vinyl. The effort earned 45,000 equivalent album units in
the tracking week (up 173%), while album sales comprising 31,000 of that sum (up
37,841%). Essentially all of its sales were from vinyl — nearly 31,000, which
marks the biggest sales week on vinyl for both Ye and Ty Dolla $ign. The vinyl
edition of the album was exclusively sold via Ye’s official webstore, and was
initially sold as a pre-order when the album was first released on Feb. 10.
Morgan Wallen’s
former No. 1 Dangerous: The Double Album is squeezed 6-7 on the new Billboard
200, though with a 4% gain (to 42,000 equivalent album units).
Beyoncé’s
chart-topping Cowboy Carter falls 4-8 with 41,000 units (down 21%),
Noah Kahan’s
Stick Season slips 5-9 with 40,000 units (down 2%) and
SZA’s
former leader SOS falls 9-10 with 39,000 (down 1%).
The seething rap battle between Kendrick Lamar and Drake spills
into the upper reaches of the latest Billboard Hot 100 songs
chart, tilted in the former’s favor. Lamar’s “Not Like Us” launches at No. 1,
while his “Euphoria” soars 11-3 in its second week on the survey. Plus, Future,
Metro Boomin and Lamar’s former three-week leader “Like That” reignites 8-6.
Meanwhile, Drake debuts at No. 7 with his top-charting entry in the clash,
“Family Matters.”
Lamar lands his fourth Hot 100 No. 1 and ups his career count to 15 top 10s.
Drake adds his record-extending 78th Hot 100 top 10.
“Not Like Us,” on Interscope Records/ICLG, premieres on the Hot 100 with
70.9 million official streams, 5 million radio airplay audience impressions and
15,000 sold in the U.S. in the week ending May 9, despite the scathing track,
which namechecks Drake and his 2021 album Certified
Lover Boy,
having not been released until
late Sunday, May 5 (after the May 3 start of the latest charts’ tracking week).
“Not Like Us” arrives as the 1,171st No. 1 in the Hot 100’s 65-year history, and
the 79th to debut in the top spot.
The track also starts at No. 1 on Streaming Songs,
where it’s Lamar’s fifth chart-topper.
Concurrently, Lamar’s “Euphoria” bounds 11-3 in its second week on the Hot 100.
Released April 30 (amid
the April 26-May 2 chart tracking week), it drew 49 million streams (up from
28.9 million in its first frame) and 1.9 million in airplay audience (down from
2.5 million) and sold 7,000 (up from 6,000) May 3-9.
Rounding out Lamar’s trio of titles in the Hot 100’s top 10, his and Future and
Metro Boomin’s “Like That” pushes 8-6. It debuted atop the April 6-dated chart
and spent its first three weeks at No. 1. It gained by 22% to 34.2 million
streams May 3-9, as well as 13% to 29.4 million in radio reach and 76% to 3,000
sold.
Drake’s “Family Matters,” released May 4 and
laser-focused on Lamar (and Metro Boomin) lyrically, debuts on the Hot 100 at
No. 7 with 38 million streams, 646,000 airplay audience impressions and 5,000
sold through May 9.
With the entrance, Drake adds his record-padding 78th Hot 100 top 10, dating to
his first, “Best I Ever Had,” in 2009. “Family Matters” is also his
record-extending 331st entry on the chart overall.
Tommy Richman’s first Hot 100 hit, “Million Dollar Baby,” holds at No. 2 in its
second week on the chart, up 54% to 58.3 million streams, 518% to 1.9 million in
airplay audience and 58% to 6,000 sold.
Taylor Swift’s “Fortnight,” featuring Post Malone, falls to No. 4 on the Hot 100
after spending its first two weeks on the chart at No. 1. It’s the top-selling
song of the week, up 1,192% to 77,000 sold (powered by 73,000 CD singles that
shipped during the tracking week).
Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” dips to No. 5 from its No. 3 Hot 100 high.
Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” slips to No. 8
from its No. 4 best; Benson Boone’s No. 2-peaking “Beautiful Things” falls 5-9
and Teddy Swims’ former one-week No. 1 “Lose Control” descends 6-10, as it tops
the Radio Songs chart
for a fifth week (73 million in audience, up 4%).
Record Of The Month
Another big country smash by
a black artist:
'A Bar Song (Tipsy)' by
Shaboozey
United Kingdom
Music Week Report
(excerpt)
Dua Lipa's third album
storms at number one
Monday, May 13, 2024
by Alan Jones, London
Already home to three Top 10
hits – Houdini, Training
Session and Illusion – Dua
Lipa’s highly-anticipated
third album Radical Optimism
storms to a No.1 debut,
delivering her highest
weekly sale yet, while
earning the honour of
dethroning Taylor Swift’s
latest magnum opus, The
Tortured Poets Department
(TTPD).
With first week consumption of 46,298 units (13,388 CDs, 16,772 vinyl albums,
4,779 cassettes, 1,414 digital downloads and 9,945 sales-equivalent streams),
Radical Optimism is Lipa’s second No.1 and had a 34.62% bigger first week than
immediate predecessor, Future Nostalgia, which launched in March 2020, initially
landing at No.2 on consumption of 34,390 units; and 187.92% greater than her
eponymous June 2017 debut, which debuted at No.5 with 16,223 sales.
Both improved on their debut positions – something, of course, Radical Optimism
cannot do. The self-named first album took 37 weeks to reach its peak position
of No.3, doing so immediately after Lipa received BRIT Awards for British Female
Solo Artist and British Breakthrough Act and performed New Rules at the 2018
ceremony. Future Nostalgia rose 2-1 on its second frame, despite its consumption
falling 53.24% week-on-week to 16,080 units. Its to-date consumption is 741,218
units, while Dua Lipa is on 1,032,934 units.
Radical Optimism’s first frame is the second highest of the year, behind TTPD,
and the highest for a British female artist since Adele’s 30 blasted onto the
chart on consumption of 261,856 units in November 2021.
Although dipping to No.2, TTPD’s consumption of 31,897 units is still higher
than that achieved by the No.1 album in 12 of the 18 previous weeks that have
elapsed in 2024, and Swift’s second highest third week tally behind the 32,589
mark set by Midnights in 2022. TTPD is her 12th No.1 but marks the 15th time she
has been dethroned – each time by a different artist. Those who can boast of
replacing her at No.1 are, in order of achieving the feat: Calvin Harris, Ed
Sheeran, Paloma Faith, Lana Del Rey, Biffy Clyro, Paul McCartney, Barry Gibb,
London Grammar, Adele, Drake & 21 Savage, Michael Bublé, The Courteeners, J Hus,
Madness and Dua Lipa.
No.1 last time out with FTHC, Frank Turner secures his sixth Top 10 and 11th Top
75 album with Undefeated (No.3, 15,580 sales). The 42-year-old alternative/folk
artist wrote, recorded and produced the album all by himself at his Essex
studio.
Two years after he reached No.1 for the eighth time fronting Stereophonics’
latest album, Oochya!, and less than a year after he reached No.5 as a member of
Far From Saints with their eponymous album, Kelly Jones returns to the Top 10
with his second solo studio album, Inevitable Incredible. A rather skimpy
eight-song, 24-minute release, it debuts at No.6 (7,022 sales). Jones’ only
previous solo chart foray came in 2020, when his live set, Don’t Let The Devil
Take Another Day. Jones’ only previous solo studio album, Only The Names Have
Been Changed, sold 10,631 copies the week it was released in 2007, enough to
earn a No.23 debut, had it not been intentionally excluded from the chart by
dint of an eligibility-busting competition.
The rest of the Top 10: The Highlights (3-4, 8,367 sales) by The Weeknd, Guts
(4-5, 7,845 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo, 50 Years: Don’t Stop (10-7, 6,191 sales)
by Fleetwood Mac, Stick Season (9-8, 5,773 sales) by Noah Kahan, Gold: Greatest
Hits (11-9, 5,689 sales) by Abba and Sour (14-10, 5,331 sales) by Olivia
Rodrigo. As her UK tour continues – she is in Birmingham tonight (May 10) – Sour
is at its highest placing for 32 weeks for Rodrigo, who also has simultaneous
Top 10 albums for the first time.
Overall album sales are up 0.08% week-on-week at 2,462,731, 10.24% above same
week 2023 sales of 2,233,914. Physical product accounts for 317,346 sales,
12.89% of the total.
Olé, Au Lait: No.1 by the smallest margin in over a year last week, Sabrina
Carpenter has an easier second week at the summit with Espresso racking up
consumption of 76,506 units (1,134 digital downloads, 75,372 sales-equivalent
streams) putting it 28.01% ahead of Too Sweet, which bounces 3-2 (59,765 sales)
for Hozier.
Carpenter was nearly pipped at the post last week by Taylor Swift, whose
Fortnight (feat. Post Malone) closed to within 484 sales (0.612%) of Espresso
after the late introduction of CD sales. That was the closest title race since
Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding’s Miracle finished 267 sales (0.608%) ahead of
David Kushner’s Daylight 53 weeks ago. There is no such drama this week, with
Fortnight fading 2-5 (45,437 sales).
23-year-old American singer/rapper Tommy Richman’s viral debut hit Million
Dollar Baby increases consumption a hefty 171.22% week-on-week as it soars 31-7
(41,198 sales).
Kendrick Lamar and Drake’s increasingly bitter feud continues apace, with one
track debuting inside the Top 10 and two more making their chart debuts inside
the Top 30. The pair were already at war, despite previously joining forces for
several tracks, most notably Poetic Justice which – with UK consumption of
424,435 units, despite not charting – is Lamar’s 18th and Drake’s 73rd top
track. Drake accelerated the animosity with J Cole collab First Person Shooter,
prompting Lamar to respond via a verse on Like That with Future & Metro Boomin.
Then, Drake released Push Ups, which reached No.14. The Californian Lamar hit
back with Euphoria, which debuted at No.50 last week and now surges to No.11
(32,878 sales), leading Canadian Drake to unleash Family Matters (No.17, 23,803
sales), and Lamar to strike back with Not Like Us (No.10, 36,360 sales) and Meet
The Grahams (No.28, 16,614 sales).
At the end of an exhausting week, Lamar has increased his career haul to 42,
including nine Top 10 hits, while Drake has now had 144 hits, 45 of which made
the Top 10. Drake, incidentally, has had 18 tracks surpass consumption of a
million units in the UK, with his career track consumption up to 3 May at a
phenomenal 112,356,332 units.
A Bar Song (Tipsy) continues to grow at a fast pace for Shaboozey, with
consumption of his country/rap crossover track increasing 21.80% week-on-week as
it climbs 6-3 (49,993 sales).
Moving to ACR and the exit door next week, Lose Control spends its 18th straight
week in the Top 10 for Teddy Swims, slipping 7-8 (40,691 sales), while The Door
(88-68, 7,950 sales) becomes the second Top 75 entry from his debut album, I’ve
Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 1). It helps the album to jump 33-30 (3,462
sales), achieving its highest chart position for 14 weeks.
The rest of the Top 10: Beautiful Things (4-4, 48,251 sales) by Benson Boone, I
Like The Way You Kiss Me (5-6, 42,350 sales) by Artemas and Austin (9-9, 36,949
sales) by Dasha. The Dasha track peaked at No.7 three weeks ago, but increases
consumption for the 11th week in a row since it first dropped in February. Seven
of the Top 10 are the first tracks by the artists in question to reach that part
of the chart, a very rare confluence.
Overall singles consumption rises for the fifth consecutive week, and hits a new
peak for the third time in a row, increasing 0.53% week-on-week to 29,994,688
units, 12.64% above same week 2023 consumption of 26,627,649 units. Paid-for
sales are down 8.01% week-on-week at 273,801 – 11.43% below same week 2023 sales
of 309,146.